Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...

as well as the five nucleobases that form an important part for DNA and RNA. Associate administrator at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Nicky Fox states, "Their findings do not show evidence ...

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing 14 of the 20 essential amino acids for life on Earth, along wit ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

NASA classifies Bennu as a medium-sized asteroid, measuring about one-third of a mile (500 metres) across. While far smaller ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.